Tag: Groceries

Meet the ‘generation’ of young Aussies who are fleeing Sydney because it’s too expensive… as single mum on a six-figure salary tells how she needs Afterpay to afford groceries

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Sydney is so expensive thousands of young people are moving out every year so they can buy a house and have children.

Australia’s most populated city housed 156,616 new migrants during the last financial year.

But prohibitively unaffordable housing also meant 38,425 people left in 2022-23, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed – a mass exodus. 

Jordan Knight, 29, who moved to Sydney from Brisbane four years ago to work in advertising, is now planning to move back to

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Of Course Instant Groceries Don’t Work

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More than 20 years ago, as the rubble of the dot-com boom was still smoking, Wired magazine published an autopsy of the grocery-delivery start-up Webvan. The company had just filed for bankruptcy after evaporating the better part of a billion dollars of investment funds in about a year and a half, and the tale of its downfall opens with a sentence that, in retrospect, is pretty funny: “In the sober days of 2001, it’s hard to imagine a time when

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